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This is a good story, but of what import? Does anyone know the approve/disapprove numbers for Jeffords and Leahy within Vermont? This is what has to change. Now this story is a good start, but it's only a start. With the coming GOP majority, (God, that sounds good!) attention will be diverted from past dirty tricks by the homeboys and this sentiment will change. I'm sure that Pat & Jimmy are counting on that. Look for both to keep a much lower profile on controversial topics, and trumpet any agreements with the administration. This is the normal method for blunting a critical press several years from reelection.

Jimmy doesn't come up until 2006, so he has plenty of time to pull this off. Pat comes up in two years (I think) so he has to work it a little harder. If the past is prolog, his performance, or lack of it, will be but a faded memory when next his name comes up in the voting booth.

How can we keep up this pressure for two to four years? Any ideas are cheerfully accepted.

Be well...

Remember in 1998, some very aberrant and ultraliberal person named "Fred ___" ran "against" Leahy and got so caught up in the campaign that he actually ending up "endorsing" Leahy and personally voting for Leahy, rather than himself. Probably Fred figured out that Leahy was more "moderate" than himself! Only in VT. Where is Coolidge?

The essential problem in Vermont is that you have a gutless Republican party that won't confront or even address the liberal party line.
Republicans up here will do anything, anything, just so that no one God forbid calls them sexist, racist, or greedy.
When they get a pair of balls there will be hope.Until then fuggetaboudit.
And yes I'm a flatlander. And yes, flatlanders have a right to have an opinion!